(Original post by sevchenko)
What I mean is the fact that there is a lack of depth means it has to be filled. You cannot go into a season with these numbers no matter what team you are, Im sure it will be filled with quality players

Apparently Arsenal may be signing 27 year old Romanian Striker Ciprian Marica on a free transfer. I can hear the WOB already.

All the GK rumours have died down and it seems Julio Cesar is going to Fiorentina. I think it's a HUGE risk playing the season with Szczesny and Fabianski - neither are good enough and prone to mistakes. Wenger should remember just how many times he altered from one to another last season. Yes we may buy a couple players before the deadline but there's no doubt we're gonna be short in a few areas as well.

(Original post by Mr Advice)
So this is the £70m summer. It's no good saying wait until the month is out because there'll be little done - Wenger has already said that nothing will happen before the CL qualifiers. What a joke.

Kind of agree, all the people saying 'wait until the month is over' are the same people who will be complaining that Wenger, once again has left it too late - highlighting Arsenal's general incompetence in the transfer market. Leaving us with mediocre transfers and a familiar feeling of unease as we enter the new season. Will we have our worst start in our history for the 3rd time running? Perhaps I'm being hyperbolic...

(Original post by Birdman1234567)
Kind of agree, all the people saying 'wait until the month is over' are the same people who will be complaining that Wenger, once again has left it too late - highlighting Arsenal's general incompetence in the transfer market. Leaving us with mediocre transfers and a familiar feeling of unease as we enter the new season. Will we have our worst start in our history for the 3rd time running? Perhaps I'm being hyperbolic...

Not in any way is it too much to say we'll have another bad and slow start. We have Tottenham on the 1st September and, honestly, I don't see us beating them. Our team is so short of quality - except for Wilshere and Cazorla our attackers are so mediocre. Today we accept them but a few years back players like Giroud wouldn't have dare come near our first team.

Thing I'm most worried about now is squad depth. Miquel and Yennaris have just gone on loan. Forget making a big marquee signing we are now just a few injuries away from being ****ed! Come on Arsenal pull your finger out!

(Original post by sr90)
Looks like another Park Chu Young. What even happened to him?

Yeah, what the hell happened to Park Chu Young? Does he even train with the first team? I'm also starting to get worried about our squad depth.... Please AW get moving! Like someone said above, we're one injury away from being ****ed!

Does anyone remember how this thread was turned on its head when there were images snapped of a tall European lad having coffee with one of our directors. Rumor mill exploded with talks of Sven Bender, turned out it was some 17 yr old Macedonian GK. any guy

(Original post by Birdman1234567)
Does anyone remember how this thread was turned on its head when there were images snapped of a tall European lad having coffee with one of our directors. Rumor mill exploded with talks of Sven Bender, turned out it was some 17 yr old Macedonian GK. any guy

Yeah, I did have a chuckle about it. I learnt to not take people adamant on a transfer happening too seriously until it's obvious(e.g. formal bids, high chances of it occuring)

(Original post by Mr Advice)
All the GK rumours have died down and it seems Julio Cesar is going to Fiorentina. I think it's a HUGE risk playing the season with Szczesny and Fabianski - neither are good enough and prone to mistakes. Wenger should remember just how many times he altered from one to another last season. Yes we may buy a couple players before the deadline but there's no doubt we're gonna be short in a few areas as well.

So Cesar's best offer is from a Europa League club after spending a year at QPR. What does that tell you? Good shot stopper on his day, average all round keeper. Forget about the fact he's Brazilian, forget about the fact he won the CL 3 years ago and focus on whether he's actually a good GK these days.

Szczesny is absolutely fine imo, he was scapegoated for Vermaelen last season unfairly and ended up with a very respectable goals conceded record and kept us in the CL with brilliant saves at QPR/Newcastle and elsewhere. Not to mention his performance vs Sunderland with 10 men when he was 10/10.

(Original post by Arturo Bandini)
probably just stopping over on his way back from ukraine (he was there visiting shaktar to "view the facilities" since they're the only ones who have had a bid accepted.)

This is a bit off-topic, but is that Thief's Theme by Nas in your signature? That video is amazing

Hopefully the Suarez deal takes place, though I wouldn't want to raise any hopes. I'd say it's 50/50 that he joins by end of transfer window. What if we threw in a 35M bid for Cesc - he's clearly worth that. Maybe it would tempt Barca to cash in.
I'm 100% Wenger will significantly strengthen the squad, we just need to be patient. He wouldn't just let all these players leave without replacing them. i.e. arshavin, gervinho, chamakh .